Happy birthday. It's been a while since you saw truly serene circumstances, but this year brings several moments of profound peace and beauty. You'll appreciate them, too, because of all the bustle and hard work represented in other moments.
tARIES (March 21-April 19): Curiosity is among your most useful talents. It will lead you to experience wonder, satisfaction and dissatisfaction. (Those last two will be equally important to a fulfilling life.)
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You're good at uncovering the facts, hearing the facts through the fiction and giving the facts in an unbiased way. Today's talent for truth will make you an invaluable part of a quest for justice.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): You have developed some mental tricks to help you get around obstacles, avoid conflict and rise above trouble. Someone will notice and follow your lead today.
CANCER (June 22-July 22): None of the saints were canonized for counting other people's sins. It just doesn't work that way. Those who focus on the sins of others are still making sin their focus.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It is possible to train your mind to be stronger than your emotions. You'll seek this kind of mastery. Clearly, emotions run amok do not contribute in a positive way to what you're trying to build in your life.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The temptation to share prematurely will be there. Exciting things are coming together, for sure, but it's still early.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Some people are easier to be around than others, but that doesn't make a relationship any more or less correct. An uncomfortable relationship can be the greatest teacher on earth, inspiring your highest and quickest evolution.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): From a distance, the rolling fog is mysterious and beautiful, but when you're in the thick of it, it can be maddeningly disorienting. Seek higher mental ground.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Seeing the problems that do exist isn't pessimism. This is actually a form of optimism. If you didn't think there might be something to be done about it, you wouldn't have the guts to see it.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The creative process is your joy. The products that come of it can bring some fleeting satisfaction as well, but it's almost unmentionable in comparison with the great feeling that comes from being in the flow of your work.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may not have all the skills you need to make something happen yet, but you're getting them. Try again.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): While joy feels better, sadness can be beautiful, too. It can wash over you like a wave in a moment of connection that makes you appreciate and value your life.
Style on 04/24/2018